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A DAY’S EVENTS IN ATLANTA the legislature does not want TO ADJOURN. Ilinnc-t*. or tin' Itallroud Hill—Pledger Per plexed-Cutting Railroad ltate*— Work oil t lie Cnplt ot lliilldlng— Nolw About Hit* Courts. Atlanta, October 0.—Although Moses went out the lights remain; ami notwith- standing the passage of the resolution by the House to adjourn .Saturday, the busi ness is still on the calendar to keep it another week. The fact is, it would be wrong to adjourn so soon. Three mouths have been spent in perfecting numerous bills now ready for a third reading and pas- sage: to get through with all these will re quire at least till Thursday of next week. The Senate understands the status, anil this afternoon when Senator Mitchell un dertook to have the Senate concur in the joint resolution to adjourn October 10, it was voted down. At least pending its dis cussion a resolution to adjourn till to-mor row prevailed, which is equivalent to voting against the passage of the resolution^ The House really deserves to be soundly abused, for its delatorionsncsB. Not withstanding its knowledge of the condition of its calendnr, it refused this morning to pass a resolution to hold a night session, and it voted down a similar resolution this afternoon. It is beyond de nial that the House trifles away its time. The Senate really has at times nothing to do. The House will not pass hills enough to keep the Senate busy more than half its appointed hours. You mark it that very few of the present members of the House will bo returned to another assembly; and they ought not. Divorces by Wholesale. Atlanta, October t!.—Within the past five years more than 200 divorces have been granted by the Superior Court of this county and less than Sl(S) in costs paid in all t igother. The people np this way certuin'y have a mania f< r divorces, %t not for paying to get them. In one term thirty-six divorces were granted, twenty-ono of which were brought by wo men and fifteen by men. Not long ago a negro womnn called a young lnwyer here and told him she de sired to get a divorce. He asked upon what ground, when she coolly informed him that she hod been living with her hus band several years and had become tired of him. “Does yer think,” said she, “dat I wants ter live wid wun nigger all tuer life, boss?" The (icncral Assessment 11111. Atlanta, October 6.—The House dis cussed the general assessment bill this afternoon. The debates were tome. The case stands that members from cities nnd towns are generally for the bill, and the ru- rul members oppose it. Take Atlanta, prop erty is assessed to the highest notch here by a “returning board,” so to speak; well, nearly all our citizens, in making returns for too State, duplicate the assessments made by the city. In tlm county tho lowest estimates obtained. This is a manifest injustice to the .State os well ns a discrimination against city prop erty-holders. The debate in the House, I think, unerringly points to the defeat of the measure. It wul probably bo displaced to-morrew by the railroad bill, ana then will l>e allowed to die without further fu neral ceremonies. A Young Woman** Huldde. Atlanta, Ga., October 6.—Fanny Perry, a white girl about twenty yean old, took a big dose of opium, late this afternoon, in her roam over the Fifth Wunl Har, on Marietta street, with suicidal intent. Drs. Dan Howell and Willis Westmoreland, Jr., were called on, but they stsm left, saying that nothing could be done for her. Dr. Quillinn was afterwards sent for, and is now with her. There is no improvement in her condition, and she is expected to die before 1 morning. The enrnte assigned for the act is that she loved not wisely bnt too well. Work on the Capitol lliilldlng. Atlanta, October 0.—Nothing ia now going on at the new capitol but stone cut ting. The main boiler, while not “busted,” litis been badly out of fix for several days, which necessitated suspension of the work. The repairs will be finished by Wednesday next, when work will be resumed. There are 200 hands employed at the capitol. The first floor is up ami ready for the iron work which will be pnt in soon. Two Women Murdered. Chicago, October 0.—A special to the Daily News from Compton, 111., says: Albert Cook, who for soma offense woa sent to jail, was released yesterday. He went to his home early this morning and shot nnd instuntlv killed his mother-in-law and then shot and killed his wife. Domestic trouble occasioned the tragedy. Cook has not been captured. The Drowning Sian's Straw. Atlanta, October 6.—John E. Bryant, Bill Pledger, Buck, John C. Kimball and others of that ilk are takings big interest in the temperance morement here. Know ing that the Republican party in this county is a corpse, they naturally want to “catch on” to somo live issue. locked horns. Tlio City and the Gale City Mr Company Having Trouble. Atlanta, Octolier 8.—The city of Atlanta and the Gate City Street Cor Company locked home good fashion to-day about 2 o’clock. At the last meeting of council the other day it developed that the Gate City Street Car Company had refused to pay for the luying of the BsfeUa block now being put down on North Prior street anil bad not signed any agreement to do so. The mat ter was referred to the street committee with power to act. To-day that committee acted by ordering Chief Connolly to force the street car company to quit the wort of relaying their rails along Pryor street from Lino to Wheat, where they had been taken UP by the contractors when laying Belgian block. Chief Connolly sallied forth with several of the force and told the workmen if thay did not stop he would lock them up. They stopped. And then the directors of the Gate City 7 ent Judge Hammond and filed an injunction asking him to restrain the city from paying across their track at the junction of Line nnd Pryor. And then the city out an injunction by * h |^‘ company ia restrained from laying its cross- Ika and rails which bail Wen taken up. These injunctions will lie argued twfore Judge Hammond on Hatnnlay. Meantime, all work, both of the oomiW «J eitv has bean stopped on Pryor, between Line end Wheat, and lb* com]«ny cannot roniticar. iuriLr than !h. intersection of "TheMW*Rsalaaj* ‘batwhere property jfegSseWInM eertHSfig lietweeu the t on each side, it dots fusel to do the same shall issue against them. There is an amendment to this act now pending in the Legislature empower ing the city to levy exccntions against street car companies, bat if passed it will not, of course, apply to the present case. The Gate City Company claim that they have a right, under the present law, to re fuse to pay for paving between their track, and they propose to fight the matter out. The city replies that the other street ear company pays for paving between its tracks. The Gate City Company rejoins that. whereas they pay licenso tax for doing business, the Richard Peters concern gets its license free. And so it goes. Rich developments may be an ticipated. A Contest Over Prohibition. Atlanta, October 8.—The time is fast approaching when the citizens of Atlanta will lie brought face to face with a tremend ous issue—the sale or no sale of liquor in this place. As yet the great bulk of the leople here do not seem to fully realize the luuieiise damage which, if carried, prohibi tion will work to the city. They cannot awake too soon to the true situation and rally in warding off au impending blow which, if dealt, will wreck and ruin the ma terial prosperity of the largest, most popu lous, and most prosperous city of Georgia. Do the men who nre now working to sweep the liquor traffic from Atlanta know what they are doing? There ls in this city upwards of one mil lion dollars invested in liquor. The men .ho sell it pay into the city coffers $80,000 year for the privilege, more than $30,000 f which snm is pain as special taxes, the remainder at the rate of 1 1-2 per cent, tax on the stock on hand. There are more than one thousand men in this city engaged in this business whose fumilies depend npon it for meat anil bread. It is therefore not too much to say that five thousand months in Atlantn arc fed nnd live thousand foruiB nre clad and housed, all from the sale of liquor. If prohibition shall prevail, $80,000 of the city's revenue will ot one blow bo swept away, $12,000 of which goes to the public schools, which will be left crippl'd if not killed. More than 1,000 men will at one blow be thrown out of employment, their families deprived of the source of their sup- )ort. Upward* of two hundred store louses will be thrown vacant upon the town. And all the money which the liquor dealers make nnd spend right here for rents, for groceries, for clothing, for pleasure, for everything in the form of necessaries nnd luxuries—an enormous sum—will be a dead loss. There is not a business in this city from the modest huckster on the corner of suburban street to the retail and wholesale palaces which tower skyward which will not feel the ter rific shock. Then will follow a long train of disasters. The vast surplus of vacant houses will hopelessly reduce rents. The great decline in property will send the price of real estate to bottom figures. The grand army of people, hurled from their calling, finding that all other avenues to business are qver-crowded, must leave the town in order to make a living or remain to inaugu rate the fiercest competition in all the branches of commerce—so fierce, indeed, that it will be almost farnine- liko in its consequences. There will ensue terrible falling off in onr transient travel. Hundreds, yea thousands, of men who come here to do business, scattering capitul in our midst will go elsewhere. Hundreds, yea thousands, of producers who pour their richness in Atlanta’s lap will seek other markets. Hundreds, thousands, yen mill ions, of capital which wontd flow into the city will be diverted to other eligible fields of investment. Thousands of mechanics who would rear hundreds of dwellings nnd stay will sigh for work and, sighing, leavo the town; for, in the face of hundreds of vacant houses of all kindn, the demand for more will cense. The grand blow will lower all values and strike at nil pocket-books. And, more thnn all, the tide of intemperance wilt gnther re newed strength untl flow with broader, vol ume. Tho eight Hues of railroads center ing here will haul in long lines of cars laden with jugs; the casual glass sill be supplanted by the ever-present demijohn nnd barrel. Every back alley will be a drinking ground. Every dark cellar will be a secret barroom. Almost every home will have a private barroom at tachment. Thousands who never drank before will drink, for stolen waters are the sweetest. Thousands of modemte drinkers will become drunkards—for having more to drink, they will drink more. Awl the un wise remedy for the great evil will only make the evil greater; for in the whole his tory of prohibition one grand truth towers above ntl else: Prohibition in large towns does not prohibit! It is time for the Puritans to call a halt. It is time for the property holders to stop and think. The man who votes for prohibition in Atlanta easts his ballot for higher taxes on every species of property—puts n premium on commercial ruin, aims n deadly blow at manufacturing, crushes out every form of material prosperity, fastens a clog to the wheels of progress, and more than all, tnrus the dagger into his own heart! AU are agreed that intemperance is an evil, lint, as you canuot kill the snake, the wisest thing to do is to scotch it—you cannot drive it out. Then use the best to regulate it. Rigid ly enforce the laws against selling liquor to minors and drunken men. Run in all drunkards, rich or poor, who stagger in the streets, and either increase the poUce force so that every bar-room, large and small, within the city limits, shall be subjected to a most vigilant patrol, or shut up the low dives which breed crime by a ueenso « high that the few places which sell it m •» be in easy reach and under the firm control of the officers of the law. This, at least, is the best solution of a most vexed problem, as demonstrated by that best of Ml teachers—business expert- tD will the peoplo of Atlanta wreck the town, or profit by experience? It remains to be seen. A WOMAN’S HAIR, v _ paved streets the work of track and three Tho Bad Alligator of tho III no Spring. Tom Williams’s bay mule, which ha* been at work on the railroad at Blue Spring, was allowed to graze on the green point across the month of Uic Blue Spring creek, and, after a while, lay down on thia point to rest, with its back to the river. Only a few minutee elapsed before an immense al ligator was seen to d»ish oat of the river, its jaws stretched to thicr utmost, and, aa ho came within reach, the teeth of the alliga tor were buried in the poor mule’s flesh just in roar of tho shoulder blades. In the tcrriblo scramble that ensued tho lower jaw, it was supposed, s'sa broken, and the shoulder blades of tbs mule were left bare. An alligator was seen going into the water with one jaw swinging, and Tom Williams is unfortunate in the loss of a very fine mule.—Tampa (Fla.) Tribune. .Agents Wanted. We want an agent for the Wkeklt Tele- ora ru in every community in the Booth. We will make such arrangements aa will enable any one to ntako money eonvauinv for us. Write for terms to agents. w-tl Home one seriouslv seeks in the advertis ing tolumus of a religious weekly for “aTiax- lor maid who knew her place and feared the not provide that elation lor failure or re- A Starving Woman Sells Her Lock* ami So Regain* Her Husband. Philadelphia Time*. Nearly *1,000,000 worth of human hair was imported into this country last year by twenty linns, one of which is located in Boston, one in Philadelphia, anti eighteen in New York; the Philadelphia house deals only .in the finer grades, which are purchased by agents of the firm at the great human hair market in Paris. Nearly all of the hair sold in this country comes from nbrond. Twice a year agents of tho great Parisian dealers visit the provincial fairs in France, Germany nnd Switzerland and buy large quantities from the peasant girls nnd wo men. In Europe the peasant women do a (rent deal of out door work nnd long hair uterferes with their business. They are willing to sacrifice their locks for a moneta ry consideration, and the hair-cutters do a thriving business all over Europe during the fair season. The most expensive hair ia pure white, which is worth double its weight in gold. The chewiest hair is worth about $5 per ounce. The white switches are ohtninoil by selecting hairs from a hundred different heads that have turned gray. When n head of hair becomes white, particularly among tho peasantry, the sun usually turns the ends yellow, and this impairs their money value. The next most expensive hnir is gray, nnd the different varieties of drab. Itlncks, browns, ntiburns and goldens are cheaper and usually coarser. White hair of any length is usually fine and the drain) arc like spun silk. When the hair is purchased it is mode np into bales and shipped to Paris. Here it undergoes a cleansing nnd purifying pro cess. The coarser grades are treated with borax and potash, bnt the finer tints of tlrab and the grays and whites are cleaned ith bran. Very little hair is bonght from the growers, so to speak, in America. Some times combings of extraordinary length tire sent to the hairdressers nnd made up into switches, hut usually purchasers prefer the imported goods. The trade depends much upon the caprice of fashion. Now the style is long hair behind and short, fluffy hair in front. A great many ladies with scanty hnir have their own locks shorn close and wear wigs, which nre fashioned so cleverly that even the most minute inspection docs not dis cover the deception. Men do not take to wigs as readily ns women. “I had a strange experience once in human hair,” said a member of the firm of John E. Laforo A Co., human hair im porters, yesterday. “A French Indy nt noble blood, who has been my friornl for years, wrote me n few months ago, inclos ing a lock of hnir, which wua n peculiar shade of drab and of silky fineness. She wanted me to match it, and I set about do ing so. I dispatched my agents all over Europe, bnt nowhere could they find a thread of hair that would match the sample. “I then inserted nn advertisement in the principal Philadelphia, New York nnd Bos ton papers, offering a liberal reward for n switch of the desired quality and color. One day a woman of about 20 years t f age, shabbily dressed, but with a form and face that Venus might hare envied, entered my office. I came in answer to your advertise ment,’ she said, nnd removing her hat, un bound a luxuriant coil of buir that called from me an involuntary cry of admiration. Will this do?’ she nsked. “I examined her hair nnd compared it with tho sample sent me by the Countess. The two were so similar that when I mixed them together I conld not distinguish one from tho other. This hair is exactly what I want,’ I said, •untl I will give you $200 an ounce for it.’ ‘Take it off,’ she said, with a nervous trembling of her voice that at once attracted my attention. ‘I am starving, I and my baby, nnd whnt you nre willing to pay is a fortune to ns.’ ■ “I became interested and questioned her. After a little hesitation she told me her story. Her husband had been a sea cap tain and shortly after they were murried had sailed for the west coast of Africa. His vessel was never heard of after leaving port, nnd it was presumed that she had founder ed at sea and all hands had been lost. The presumed widow had struggled to mnintain herself and infant child, bnt with indifferent success. Finally, when suffering from the pangs of hunger, she had read my adver tisement and hastened to my place of busi ness, praying inwardly that her hair, which had been her husband’s pride, might he of the required shade. “Well, to make n long story short, I bought her hair, which weighed four ounces, and paid her $800 for it. 1 sent the switch to my customer, the Countess, and wrote her the history of the hair. She is a woman of grent wealth nnd goodness of heart. The return mail bronght me a letter authorizing mo to pay the poor little sailor’s widow $1,000 extra; I did so, and wrote nn ac count of the affair to our official journal, which is published iu New York. The story was so romantic that the daily papers copied it, nnd I received several letters from charitable people offering pecuniary assist ance to the sailor’s widow. Hhe was proud and refused to receive any help. “One day, about three weeks after the inkUcntion of the story, a man who waa mmzed and bearded, cumo into mv office very much excited, lie held in bis hand a copy of » New York paper, and nnfolding it pointed to my story. •Can you give me the address of this woman?” he asked eagerly. “She is my [wife, I thought her dead.’' While I wrote down the address, he told me his story. His vessel had been ship wrecked on the African coast, and he and two others of the crew alone managed to reach the shore. It was several m iiitns be fore they managed to reach a civilized port. He immediately sent word of the disaster to the owners of the foundered vessel and wrote to his yonng wife. From the former he received a reply, bnt he beard no word from his wife, and when he reached Phila delphia he discovered that she had mysteri ously disappeared. One day in looking over a paper he enme across my story anil had hurried to my office to leant the partic ulars. I sent him to his wife in my car riage, and you cun imagine whnt occurred at the meeting, for each believed the other dead. I wrote to the Countess, giving the sequel to the story, and the reault waa that shipwrecked captain now commands her yacht, and tho wife who sacrificed her hair to buy bread soils with him on every voy age.” p A few years ami the custom of weaving in some form a look of hair from the head of departed friends was quite fashionable. The style changed, however, and the hair jewelry makers became nearly bankrupt Within the last year the fashion 1 has re vived, and now rings, brooches, pins and all sorts of jewelry ore made from human hair. There are several “artists in hair” in Philadelphia, bnt one man U the master. His process of working the hair is s secret and he not only make* jewelry, bnt Und- ocapo and figure pieces fashioned to skill fully that they are like etchings or paint ings. Flower groups, composed of rose bud*. lilies, panties an l daisies, are fash ioned cleverly, nature being copied in form and color almost perfectly, tho different tints and colon produced by the nee of different shades of hair. JERSEYS AT THE FAIR. LUt of Finn Animal* to bo Sold at Auction (uni to Exchange. It i* now certain that more than one hundred Jeniey* will be offered for **ie at the State fair. The Macon Jeniey Cattle Cattle Club will print a catalogue of all Jemeya exhibited, together with their age*. sires and daiua. Tbi« catalogue trill be for the ub« of aellera and buyer*. Col. E. C. Grier haa received the following list of Jer*ey*, which Mr. J. U. Wade, of Atlanta, will offer for *ale. They are among the beat he haa, and will be Mold without reaervation: Bull calf No. 5, entitled to rrgUtry, number not aanigued. bom June 15. 1883, aolid color with black point*, "ire Proapect Rioter No. 9189. aud he ha* over 9(1 per cent, of the blood of Stoke Pogis Third, of Mary Anne, of Ht. Loui*. Dam, Ilex Teuolla No. 31,833. daughter of Tenella Second No. 19,531, record over eeren gallon* of milk and 3 ‘ 4 lb*.of butter a day. ahe a daughter of Tenell* No. 0,713, who U a grand daughter of Grand Duke Alexia No.1040, thue uniting the blood of Btoke Pogia, aigual, and Oraud Duke Alexia. Bull calf No. 5, entitled to reaiatry, number not aaalgued, born Augu*t 15, 1885, Mire Duuraven No. 7,950. Dam, Fnillc McOwen No. 15,135, and ahe 1* a daughter of Leouidaa No. 3,010, aou of aigual No. 1,170, he being the grandaire of both aire aud dam. Frolic McOwen trace* to liajah No. 840. Bull No. 4, entitled to regiatry, number not as signed. bom July 39, 1885, Holid color with black point*, aire Duuraven 7950, only son of TeulUa 0712. daughter of Hignal I17o, aud granddaughter of TIIE COVINGTON AND MACON. Grand Duke Alexia 1040, Dam Edwins Second 21,833, daughter of Edwiuad713. daughter of Hignal 1170, and alater of Grand Duke Alexia 1040. Thia ia a eombiuatlon. inbred Hignal 1170 and Grand Duke Alexia 1040, that 4a now being used in the bent herd* of the blue graiw region of Kentucky, and I have aohl bulla of nearly exactly the mine breeding of thia to go to that country. Bull No. 1, entitled to regiatry, number not aa- Nigned, bom July 24th, 1HM4; aolid color with black switch, aire “Dunraven” 7,950, dam “Della TenelU” 30,003. Dunraven ia the only aon of Tenella 0,712, •he the beat daughter of Hignal 1,170 and the beat grauddaughter of Grand Duke Alexia 1040, and he the aire of Azelda 3,873. and she ia find on the list aa a daiu with tho moat danghtera with the beat record*. Della Tenella. dam of thia bull, ia a daugh ter of Tenella 2d 19,521; record as a three-year-old over seven gallon* milk and three and one-fourth pound* of butter a day, and ahe ia a daughter of Te- uclla 0,712, and through her trace* both to Hignal nnd Grand Duke Alexia, the grandnire of Tenella, Hel* alao the grand-dri* of Tenella 2d, through her aire Hharp*hooter of Atlanta 3,011. No. 1. cow. Milliner 8,847, boro December 3, 1877; aolid Freuch gray in color, all black poluta, good ahape, in aize abovo medium, udder large and well- ahaped; large, well-placed teata: milks eaay, large atreaiu, and (a perfectly kind and gentle, give* from four to live gallons; awarded first premium at exjH>- aition. Atlanta. 1881; through her aire Cheaapeake 3,519 ahe in a granddaughter of the celebrated Orange Pool 804 (Imported) and trace* ltoth through her aire and dam Groce of Brook wood 5,070, twice to Imported Pansy 8, and twice to imported Europe 121. No. 2. cow. *‘Rcx Tenella, 21.833. Bora March 8 1882. Hire John ltox Hixth 4,579. Find premium, and alao (though only 20 months old) the nweep- stake* over several grown bulla, and also at the head of the herd that took the flr*t premium at the Atlanta Exposition, 188!. Total winuiti^; includ ing herd premium, $325, cash. Afterward wok awarded first premium at the Alabama State fair, where an offer ot $*» wa* refused for hi*n. Dam ot thia cow la Tenella Hecond. 19,521, that aa a three-vear-old gave over aeveu gallon* of milk a day, and made three and one-fourth pound* of butter, and *he 1* a daughter of TenelU 0,712. the beat daughter of Hignal 1,170, aud grand daughter of Grand Duke Alexis, 1,040. Bex TenelU made 10H pound* of butter at 18 month* old. lias had three calve*. Rex, 1,330. grandsire of John Rex Hixth, aold for $3,500. He la a ion of Couch’s- Lilly, 3,237. and she a daughter of Albert, 44, the graudalre of Hignal 1,170, making this cow su in ured Signal. No. 3. Cow "Della-Tenella.” 20,903, bora Februa ry 4tb, 1883. Full sister of No. 2. Bull No. 2. entitled to rcgi*try, number not as signed, born January 29,1885, Hire Dunraven 7,950. Dam Alice Templeton 19,523. Dunraven, only aon of TevclU. 0712. beat daughter of Kegnal 117u. Alice Templeton ia a daughter of Milliner 8X47, and i* one of the lwat young cows. Hhe has a capacious udder. Urge teata. give* a big stream, and milks ea«y. aud girc* a large quantity. A full stater ot thi* bull 1* one of the Urgent milkers in Mr. S. H. PheUu’a herd of Jerseys, though ahe la not yet grown. I alao own a full sister, one of the largest and moat promising yearling* 1 have ever seen. This bull, should he live, will give satisfaction to whoever gets him. Bull No. 3, entitled to registry, number not as signed. bora February 21. 1885. solid color, block point*, sire Dunraven 7950. only son of TenelU. Dam Sweetmeat 9810. Sweetmeat cornea from the beat butter stock on every side; her sire. Chief Boron 2984. la a aon of Clielten Duke 934. head of tho herd that won the first premium at Cent ennial. Philadelphia; Chief Baron’s dam U imported Black Bess 1788, said to have been the best cow in the Centennial herd. Sweetmeat gives four gallons milk a day, and her dam. Bees wax 9,807, IMS a record of seventeen pounds and five ounce*. She U the dam of Ethel, who also has a good record, and the Utter U the dam of Ethel Second, No. 32,291, that made an official record of thirty pound* and fifteen ounces. Sweetmeat ia a granddaughter of Top Sawyer, half brother of Big* . .. . — inbred Bigual bull. ual, thus making thU an 1 ENGINE 80 Runs Over nnd Kills Andrew Hubbard Yesterday Morning. m Another fatal accident on the Central railroad oe curred in the city yesterday morning, by which Andrew Hubbard, a negro track hand, lost bis life. | At 9:31) o'clock Habitant, with other track bands under the direction of Mr. W. B. Hall, was engaged upon the tracks immediately in front of the old Rock Mill. At that point there are several switches, some connecting with the main line, and some leading into the union passenger depot. Hubbard wo* on the main line, taking out acroaa-tie. Mr. Hall observed the passenger train from Eatouton approaching, and warned llnbbard to get out of its way. Hubbard stepped npon a aide track, near the Rock Mill, by which engine* going to the freight yard of the Savannah division pass to the main liue. At the moment, engine 80, in charge of Eugincer Joe Counally, came thundrriug along on its way to th« freight yard. Hubbard did not see it, and before be could be warned waa a truck by tbe pilot and knocked down. He whirled over and managed to draw hU body 'mm the track, but bU legs and feeti remained, and the ponderous wbecU ■ IQMJB) OVKK THICK. After the engine passed to the main line Mr. Hall and tbe track hands ran to Hubbard’s assiaUnce, and discovered that he bad been frightfully man gled. Hia right leg below the knee was crushed to pieces, and hia left foot wa* tuaabsd “ff. He bled profusely and uttered agonising shriek* as he Uy writhing on the around. Aa quickly as possible Hubbard was taken np by the track hands and carried to his house, at No. 82 Poplar struct. On the way he continued to groan and shriek, attracting a large crowd of sympathizing spectator*. Dr. C. U. Hall waa summoned, and he went Im mediately to Hubbard’* houoe to give him medical aid. opiate* were administered to him, and the flow of blood waa stopped. Dr. llaU aaid that both legs would have to be amputated aa soon aa a reac tion took place. AC 1 o’clock, assisted by Dr. K. P. Mootw. Dr. Hall amputated Hubbard’s legs below the knees, lioth the physicians gave it as their opinion that he would probably die, nearly aU the chances being agoiuet hi* recovery. After the amputation Dr. Hall remained with Hubbard several hours, keeping him alive with opiates. He finally saw that there was go Kors roa tub mo* to live, and left him in the hands of hia friends. After Dr. Hall left Hubbard sank rapidly, and hia groans gradually grew inaudible. At 5 o’clock he Aa to tbe cause of the accident, parties who present when it oedbrred declared that the engineer of No. 80 failed to ring the bell os he ought to have done. Tbe engineer claimed that be passed the Hock mill with the usual warning, and that It waa no fault of hia that the accident occurred. The track honda aay that Hubbard would not have heard the engine bell, because of the noise made by the train from Katonton and feta abstraction in watching the train as it passed. Hubbard had no wife, but he left one daughter, who ia out of the city. Uls remains will be Interred at the expense of the Central railroad. Grand Lodge, F* and A. M On the 13th instant, the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, of the Mate of Gwrete, will assemble in annual session at Masonic Hall, in thia city. The session will be an Important one. and will bring together many of the most distinguished citizens of the State. The officers of tbe Grand Lodge are; John 8. Da vidson, Most Worshipful Grand Master. James M. Kdshm, Right Worshipful Deputy Grand Master. Reuben Jones, Right Worshipful Senior Grand Warden; J. H. EstiU. Right Worshipful Junior Grand Warden; Joseph K. Wells. Right Worshipful Grand Treasurer; and J. Emmett, Blacksbeor, Right Worshipful Grand Secretary. Of tbe three hundred and Dins Bine Lodges In Georgia, two hundred and forty-three were repre sented at the meeting of the Grand Lodge la 10*4. At the approaching mooting, it is expected that much larger number of lodges will be represented The Ma*oae of Macon are already preparing for tbe reception of delegates, and will extend to them the hospitalities m usual upon such occasions. In quiry ysstntday developed the fact that all the ludgss In Macon ate flourishing. Perhaps no other dtp iu the state has wttuiu its limit* as many de voted meat hers of the ancient aod order. A well informed Masou told a i’uuuuun repor.- er, yeeirrday morning, the *. da*** try am fiourt th in* in all sections of the l-srl$ enema**' meeting of the Grand Lodge gives the order a ns impHas, and at the pwee.’.t rata of progmes, G*»> cU bids fair lobetLs banner Masonic State. Citizens’ Heetlnff Culled for Monday Night —A Report and a Card. Tho committee appointed by Mr. H. B. Jaques, president of the Board of Trade, to ascertain now much stock the citizens of Macon would take in the CoringP*n and Macon railroad, held a meeting Wednesday night and anotbor on yesterday. As will be seen from the committee’* report, which ia published below, the intentions of the projectors of the road were carefully inquired into, aud are fully endorsed. It wiU also be seen that the committee decided to call a citizens’ meeting at the court house Monday night, October 12th. A representative of the Teleorafh had a talk with Mr. Jaques lost night. Said he: ‘The committee from tbe Board of Trade has carefully investigated the proposed Covington and Macon railroad, and is satisfied that the projectors ot the enterprise aro thoroughly iu earnest. If Macon does her duty there is no doubt but that the rood will be built It is earnestly to be hoped that there will be a large meeting of the citizens at the court house Mouday night Macon cannot afford to let this enterprise foil.” HE POUT OF TIIK COKKITTKK. “The undersigned were appointed by the meeting of the Board of Trode, on Wednesday, a committee to ascertain what amount of mouey could be raised in Macon toward the construction of a railroad from this city to C’ovingtou. In pursuance thereof we have diligently inquired iuto the intentlous of the projectors of this enterprise, and are convinced they are in earnest, and that the completion of their plaua will contribute greatly to tho wealth and im portance of Macou. The good which will result therefrom to our city cannot be over estimated. It ls au enterprise which should command the enthu siastic support of all of our citizens. Capitalists, merchant**, mechanics and laborers alike will share In the good results. ‘‘Iu view of the great Importance of this subject, we deem it best to call a public meeting of our peo ple at the court house on next Mouday .tight, so that all may hear a full explanation of the w.*\ole en terprise. The officers and members of tbe Macon Board of Trade and the ofUcora of the proposed railroad will be present, and we cordially Invite all of our citizens to meet them. Let nothing keep you away. Let us have a meeting worthy of Macon aud the occasion. •*R. R Jaquxs, **8. T. CoLKMAV, “H. J. JOHHSOH, “J. H. Campubli* “A. B. Small. ”B. M. Itoo rum, "Committee from the Board of Trade.” Colonel Livingston, president of the uetr road, re quests the publication of tbe following CAM* TO TUR CtTIZEHH OF KAPOK. "The mayor and aldermen of your city have very kindly tendered the right of way to the Covington and Macon railroad Into the city and your Board of Trade after careful examination into the claims of the enterprise* has publicly declared the same to be Of groat Importance to v».ur city. Of great impor tance iu that the railroad vill traverse a productive aud wealthy section of the State emptying into the lap of Macon tho products of the soil as well aa con centrating iu your city the trade ever dependent on such transportation when connected with a growing, healthy and enterprising people, such aa your place contains. The road will largely increase the terri tory to be occupied by your business men, will en hance in value your real estate, will build up your schools and churches, will increase competition in •ry direction and in every avenue to wealth, and 1 inspire your people to new departures in a di versified business, and increase your population rapidly. In a word, no citizen ever so humble or so poor, that will uot reap immediate and lasting ben efits from thia enterprise. While those that build and equip ths road may fail and become bank rupted, yet yon will have the road with its advantages, owned and controlled bv whoever may succeed ua. And while New York city way lose, and will evidently, to all practical purposes, lose the cajdtal invested in thia road, the conveniences and the profits, as well aa the invest ment, must remain with you aud constitute a part of the aggregated wealtl of your city and State. There is no citizen of Macon that can afford to close hia mouth and purse and see this euterarise fall; and os tbe committee appointed' by tho Board of Trade, acting by authority, nas called a citizens’ meeting for Mondav night the 12th lnat, at which meeting there will be the Board of Trade and your city authorities, with others, to explain satisfactorily how yon are, individually and collectively, into r eated in thia the building of tbe Covington and Macon railroad, wiU you not come out determined to vie the one with the other in nrumoting this enterprise? L. 7. Livikostox, ‘PresidentCovington and Macon Railroad,” THE BUSINESS OUtLoQK. The {Merchants nil Happy Over the llrlgli' Prospects. The present week has been remarkable for activity in trade. Business has been unusually brisk, and, as a consequence the merchants are all m. the activity mentioned has prrvsdedaU departments, the dry goods trade has (tertian* c Joyed the largest snare of the boom. The booi .. for such indeed it la, may be said to have begun from the first, and excepting tho few days of bad weather when trade was Impossible, has continued uninter ruptedly ever since. The stores have been crowded from morning until night, and the salesmen kept In perfect rush. One important feature that may be mentioned in this connection is that a large share of the trade haa been derived from the sections of country contigu ous to Macon. The local trade has been far above the average, but the bulk has been contributed tnaluly by the sections mentioned. This speaks unusually well for tho city and for onr merchants. It ia no ticeable that already the emallcr towns neighboring to Macon have begun to complain that the trade is gradually leaving them and coming here. This is Indeed so at all points where a convenient rail road schedule makes it practicable. Where this Is the case tbe local merchants at the smaller towns find it impossible to compete with the Macon merchants either in price or the quality of their goods. The result ia the drift of the trade to this point. The Macon merchants believe that the boom is dne to thlr fact and that It can be kept up if the railroads will not discriminate against them in their schedules. As an instance of what this trad* amounts to, ona retail dry good < merchant yesterday sold a $250 bid. of goods to one por.y from a dUUnoe. The same merchant also sola a number of smaller bills, ranging from $15 to #15o. The other stores did equally as well and came in tor their share of the business. The fact cannot be denied, that Macau is en< entering npon and one of the largest business booms ana baa ever enjoyed. Tbe signs, all indicate it. and the fntora will demonstrate it She deserve* it, and will have IL Her business men are all cool and reliable, and know of what she is capable. 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In a short time it was observed that the chasm was gradually widening and extending its course, showing that somo unusual convulsion of nature was in prog. resH. As there was no iurther violent agitation nt that time, the affair remained little known. Tho so-called rent or chssu ia now again assuming very serious nroportions, and is continually widening and lengthening, and actually threatening the surrounding sec tion, It has deviated from its former course, which was an easterly to northerly direc tion, crossing a small emlsinkment nnd run ning in a zigzag line about fifty yards from tho church. Several attempts have been made to obtain an idea of its depth, but they have been unsuccessful, owing to tbe shape in which it runs. There are various conjectures as to the origin of such an un usual state of things. Home attribute it to an upheaval of the earth caused by earth quake shocks. The Science of Life. Only $1, By Mull Pwt-Pald. 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The Science of Life should be read by the yonng for instruction and by the afflicted for relief. It will benefit all—London Lancet. Thera ls no member of society to whom the sci ence of Life will not be usefaL whether yonth. nsrent, guardian, instructor or clergyman.—Argo naut. yudrees the Peabody Medical Institute, or Dr. W. H. Parker, No. 4. Bttlflnch street, Boston. Mass., who may be consulted on all diseases requiring skill and experience. Chronic and obstinate dis- eases that have baffled the skill HIM [ "f *H other physicians s specialty. Such JiJjfilJ treat- ever bs found ready to materially aasiat in building It np. ibis faith in shared fully by the Txleoraml that wltue with peculiar gratification the signs of promisee is a part of Macon, and whatever pertains to tbs city's welfare, affects it It too baa shored the boom, and hand in hand with ths merchants and busiuea* men rejoices in the bright prospects ahead. Whatever is their future ia its future, and nobody will bo prouder to a*tend congratulations to them in the hour of triumph than Thk Macux Tel egraph. KtarvinK Himself to Death. On the 28th of September a negro boy named Dennis Gordon was lodged in the charged with oaaaulting a negro girl. Gordon entered his cell quietly, bnt soon after egan to cut up all aorta of antics, evidently trying .j create the impression that ha woa crazy. Jailer Birdsong paid no attention tq Gordon, determined not to be taken in by another Alex Etheridge Two or three days after he *« imprisoned eoi the occnpent* of cells adjoining Gordon’s informed Jailer Birdsong that Oordon refused to eat any thing. The Jailer watched him, and diecovered that he really would not eat the food prepared for him. Soon after Oordon complained of being sick. Dr. P. U. Wright, the county physician, waa summoned, but he aaid there woe no causa to suppose that ppoeed that he Yesterday morning Gordon had been ona week without food, and appeared to be suffering a good deal. He bod no fever, but looked emadeted and weak. A lirUonn Informed » TzLznura reporter tlut Oordon mid Monday nliilit that he Intended to If to death, nnA elnce Ibnt time he bad eleep and could not bo nwahened. An buy Wuy to Pay. Any aolMcriber to tbe Whslt Tzliobapb cun pay a year'* sobacription by getting up n dab ot five now •ahtcriben to it at ona dollar each. w-tf A Marrow thepe. A party ot ladim from Tennemer, who ■tartad to ruit reUlircn in Murray county, bad a narrow eacape from drowning at the Terror bridgo crunning Coabntta creek on Suiubty lent. Tho recent rain* hare earned tho etraain to orerfiow ita banka, and the water hod aobmrtgod tbe road leading to tbe bridge for a hundred yard.) or more, and vrhenthedrirerof the vehicle droro hia hofeea in tba animabt began nwimming and the hack wan overturned nnd the occupant* thrown out into deep water. They mincu- lonely encaped drowning by being waahed hr tbs turbid current to a nhallow place, where they clnuj; to Home log* ami Jefcri* I tout help nrri7cd. Had it not been for tho I driv. r’.i aasislen" i cr.c * tout lady wouidhave I pcro,U- L—italtou Citizen. ( KNOW THYSELF.* GREAT MEDICAL WORK OX MANHOOD. Medical Department! ofttiie University of Georg ia AT AUGUSTA. The fifty-fifth eenaion of the Medical Col lege of Georgia will begin on tbe first Mon day in November, and continue until tho first of Mnrch. Full corp* of twelve pro- femora. Every facility for *tndying all bninche* of Medical Science. Hospital and policlinic daily. For detailed vircular ap ply to ED\V. OEDDINGS, Dean of Faculty. FINE GEORGIA FARM FOR SALE ! One of tbe very beat (tip top) farm* in Monroe county, one mile from Jobmton- ville, one and a half milea from Gagffina- ville, nix from Rarnenville and nine from Forayth, tbe Central railroad pawing through it. - Tbe land 1* nearly level, con tain* 285 acrea more or lew.' About 1C> acrea cleared and in a high state of cultiva tion, balance in wooda, little pine growth on the place. A four-room dwelling ami all the neoal outbuilding* and good tenant houae* on tbe liloce. Convenient to cburcbee and acbooln. Parties wishing to purchase are invited to examine the place, M the crops of the pa*t fire yearn are all the recommendation it need.. For further particular* apply to ■eplHwlt. K. IL ZELLNER. Mg BEST IS CHEAPC8T.' iHRESHERSa BtncPuen SnUsd is *11 sections. 1 Clover Bu!t— TOYMEN • i!%rinzfron» tfi«*f- cfloathful »r- _ _ tlway. Inst tnsnii >od. He. I will Modjoee vsltubUtrestUe opoa ths abort (Beeaseeslse (firsetinn* f«»r m-'f-care, fm! 3 chares- Address Prof. F C. 1'OWLLH.Moodaa.Cooa. 6 rfAiiiT w’aS'SkS»Sm C00KST0YES HT.y/AVSSATfflCTOIlY EICHTEEBSIZESABD KIHDS SU PURCHASERS CIS BS SUITED KAXCFACTU. Isaac A.Sbepoard 4 Co.,Bdi;iniore ) lI(L AMI Foil MALE UY WALT l it T. JOHNSTON, iy.de Jgi-lit Mil* •'!!, (in. mm